David French, the new, gay, version of Andrey Vysinsky at NRO, states that the affidavit empty of probable cause that a specific crime had been committed is sufficient for an arrest. And he even claims that in all such cases an arrest is routine.

Vyshinsky, a member of the Menshevik branch of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party since 1903, became a lawyer in 1913 and joined the Communist Party in 1920. While teaching at Moscow State University and practicing.

Leaving Cert > Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe > Case Study 1: Stalin's Show TrialsAndrey Vyshinsky, prosecutor at each of the show trials.
One of the most terrifying ways through which Stalin established a totalitarian dictatorship in the Soviet Union was through his purges and his show trials.

Svetlana Chervonnaya reviews the Moscow archives a few days ago. In March 9, 1950 reference sent to Andrey Vyshinsky in connection with the latter's reluctance to invite Corliss Lamont tothe USSR, Lamont is characterized as "a great fumbler and one of the hesitating liberals", and at the same time as a person who "has alwaysbeen connected with the progressive movement and supported itfinancially", and for this reason "to refuse Lamont to visit the USSR would make his further use in carrying out progressive measures difficult.